Housing & Homelessness

Young people in this country are facing a chasm of doubt and instability. Mental health problems are widespread, university fees are rising, job op...

In the 1970s Alice Leahy left nursing to work and live in a Dublin homeless shelter. This is the story of her life and life choices, from an empowe...

A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to Americas housing crisis.Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Evicted: Poverty and Pro...

Britain in 1946 witnessed extraordinary episodes of direct action. Tens of thousands of families walked into empty army camps and took them over as...

This report summarises the results of a research project commissioned by BRE Trust to apply a methodology developed to calculate the cost of poor h...

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times In a metropolis like New York, homelessness can blend into the urban landscap...

Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that man...

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on...

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

The high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite its paramount imp...

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer whether a student or practicing profes...

After the trauma of the war, those returning home required jobs, and with them clean and modern homes for their families. The slums and tenements o...

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...

Poverty in Canada s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past dec...

Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how...

Touching, insightful and human this book demands a social and, above all, a political response Jon SnowTamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking ...

This one stop resource highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with individuals e...

For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed whether hoste...

At Home with Autism: Designing Housing for the Spectrum introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that dema...